Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-03
PROBABLY GUILTY.
George Larrabee, the Alleged MOosehead
Lake ShOotist, Held in $4,000.

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FRIDAY morning the trial of George LARA
bee, for shooting John Arboo, was resumed
at Dover.
DR.. Hiram Hunt, Jr.. of Greenville, testi-
fed: Attended John Arboo on Thursday.
Sept. 22d found the man lying on his left
side, the right side of his back at about the
| lower portion of the shoulder blade puncl-
ured with a number of small holes, and very
much swollen; the patient suffered consider
able pain. The following morning the do
tor removed about twenty-three shot, There
were somewhere in the vicinity of a hundred
holes, covering a surface. from above down,
of not more than eight inches, while the great
majority of the shot were within four to FIVE
inches of each other. The shot mostly de-
! fiected as they struck. In the v tness judg-
ment they all came from the same charge.
The one who shot Arboo must have been on
the easterly side of The road and Arboo must
have been a little ia advance of him. The
shot were fired from shot gun in witness
judgment.
William O'Lsir was then called and testi-
fed: l reside at the head of the lake, North
East Cary and have been working for Mr.
Savage. Was at Mr.. Savage's week ago
last Wednesday. He then testified to seeing
the man coming with the wagon as he wa-
| standing in the barn door, hearing MIR. Boiler
say Arboo was shot, and that he (Boher)
supposed Mr.. Larrnbee shot him; saw Lar
rabee come into the hotel bar-room about
three o'clock that seeing Larrabee coming
he said to Colonel Littlefield they'd better
put Larrabee's rifle, which hung in the bar
room, away, which Colonel Littlefield did ;
that. as he stood at the door, he said with a
laugh, "They say | shot Bub, but didn't"
that he asked for his gun and Colonel Little
field told him it was put away; that he said
to the Colonel that he wanted il and twenty
dollars AS he came down the road towsrd
the holel. he carried the gun on his shoulder
with the muzzle in his hand and locked back
every little while.
Sidney w. Parkman of Greenville, was
then called and testified: | asked Mr.. Lar
rsbee on the train between Guilford and this
village, what time of day the shooting affray
occurred at the head of the lake. He said
that he did not know. | asked him where he
was when he first heard of the shooting. He
said that he was at Savage's hotel. asked
him what time that was. He said it was u
o'clock.
Otis Martin of Guiford, sheriff of Piscats-
suis county, was then sworn ana testified
that the prisoner said to him that Mr.. Taylor
of whom he borrowed a gun, gave him Lar
raDeeI no cartridges, unless tnere was one
in the gun; that Mrs. Savage told him, in
the bsr-room, ofthe shooting, on the day il
took place that he did NOT hear the report Of
a gun: that he did not ask for the rifle or for
any money at the hotel.
Mr.. Lebroke then addressed the court
laying much stress upon the grievances Of
the prisoners counsel in respect to being de-
barred from interviews with the prisoner,
and asking the court to discharge the prison
er on the ground of his entire innocence.
County Attorney Parsons then reviewed
the grievance matter, and the evidence pre-
sented. urging the probable guilt of the pris-
oner and asking that tbs court fix the bail at
not less than $4,000.
The court adjudged Larrabee probably
guilty, and held him in the sum of three
thousand dollars, to answer, on the last Tues
day in February next at the supreme judicial
court.